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The great dissent : how Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind--and changed the history of free speech in America / Thomas Healy.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2013Edition: First editionDescription: 322 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780805094565
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 342.7308/53 23
LOC classification:
  • KF224.A34 H434g 2013
Contents:
Train fever -- A smart chap -- The habit of intolerance -- Catspawned -- The old ewe and the half-bakes -- He shoots so quickly -- Defending sophistries -- Dangerous men -- They know not what they do -- The red summer -- Workers--wake up! -- A plea for help -- "Quasi in furore" -- Adulation -- "Alone at Laski".
Summary: Based on newly discovered letters and memos, this riveting scholarly history of the conservative justice who became a free-speech advocate and established the modern understanding of the First Amendment reconstructs his journey from free-speech skeptic to First Amendment hero
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Automatización y Procesos Técnicos Automatización y Procesos Técnicos (1er. Piso) KF224.A34 H434g 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000199045

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-308) and index.

Train fever -- A smart chap -- The habit of intolerance -- Catspawned -- The old ewe and the half-bakes -- He shoots so quickly -- Defending sophistries -- Dangerous men -- They know not what they do -- The red summer -- Workers--wake up! -- A plea for help -- "Quasi in furore" -- Adulation -- "Alone at Laski".

Based on newly discovered letters and memos, this riveting scholarly history of the conservative justice who became a free-speech advocate and established the modern understanding of the First Amendment reconstructs his journey from free-speech skeptic to First Amendment hero

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